Paul Levi

Paul Levi (11 March 1883-9 February 1930) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany from 1919 to 1921, succeeding Leo Jogiches and preceding Ernst Thalmann.

Biography
Paul Levi was born on 11 March 1883 in Hechingen, Hohenzollern Province, German Empire to a family of wealthy German Jews. In 1906, he became a lawyer and a member of the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD), and in 1915 he was one of the delegates who helped in the formation of the Spartacus League. In 1919, he became the leader of the Communist Party of Germany after the deaths of Leo Jogiches, Karl Liebknecht, and Rosa Luxemburg, and in October 1919 he expelled the ultra-left faction of the party (a half of the party), who formed the Communist Workers' Party of Germany. In 1921, after the March Action, Levi resigned from politics, becoming a lawyer in the legal committee of the Reichstag. On 9 February 1930, he fell out of the window of his apartment while delirious with pneumonia, and he died of his injuries.